- A big surprise awaits the teacher who is appointed to his hometown, which he knows like the back of his hand; the village he was assigned is not in the maps or any records.
- Crafting a deft allegory of systematic oppression and bureaucracy, Aram Dildar gives voice to silenced histories of Southeastern Turkey in a teacher's quest for a lost village. Echoing Beckett and Camus, this award-winning short distills a true story into an evocative cinematic journey.—yusufpiskin
- A big surprise awaits the teacher who is appointed to his hometown, which he knows like the back of his hand; the village he was assigned is not in the maps or any records.
Edip is appointed to his hometown as a teacher just after graduated from university. When he goes to the government office to start work, he learns that the village he was assigned to is not in the records. He could not tolerate the slowness of the bureaucracy any longer because schools are about to open. He starts to search for Yesilköy himself, which cannot be found in any of the official records, in the region he knows like the back of his hand. Edip, who is looking for Yesilköy in Diyarbakir, will find himself in one of Turkey's biggest political problems. Director's Statement All the villages, mountains and rivers of the city where I lived and grew up had two names. One is the name that has existed for thousands of years and is known to everyone, and the other is official Turkish names that are not nearly related to their original names. When I researched a little more, the names of 28 thousand settlements in Turkey, used by the original local people, were banned and renamed.
The aim is to completely destroy the memory of a region. This movie was inspired by a true story. The story of someone lost in their own geography. While this tragic reality was in the middle, I chose a language close to dark comedy while transferring such a big problem to the cinema. As a director, I tried to keep a distance from the story and the character and just tell the event without agitating. I chose the camera language accordingly.
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